This past week, I
was interviewed by best-selling author and World Net Daily columnist Jerome
Corsi. (Read
the column here) The subject of the interview was the potential conservative
Christian response to the possibility that Rudy Giuliani would gain the
Republican nomination for President next year. (We also discussed the
cozy connection between the Bush and Clinton families, which will probably
be dealt with in a future Corsi column.)

I told Dr. Corsi,
"A lot of conservative Christians will never vote for Rudy Giuliani."
I will even go so far as to say that no genuine Christian conservative
could possibly vote for Giuliani. And, no, it does not matter that Hillary
Clinton might be elected President as a result. A Giuliani or Clinton
choice is tantamount to a choice between Nero or Caligula.

Let me say it plainly:
a Hillary Clinton administration would be no worse than a Rudy Giuliani
administration. In some ways, it might not be as bad. At least, with a
Democrat in the White House, conservatives might try to act like conservatives
and muster the energy to actually oppose some of her liberal proposals.

The record is clear:
when a Republican is in the White House, conservatives not only lose their
backbone, they also lose their brain cells. They walk around in a daze
without the ability to even see what is going on right before their eyes.
They become "mind-numbed robots" with no commitment to principle whatsoever.
Why? Because one of "their own" is in office. At that point, it becomes
a "see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil" situation. If two George
W. Bush administrations have taught us anything, they have taught us that.

Of course, there
are pseudo-conservatives who will argue that Giuliani is better than Hillary,
because he will not be as prone to raise taxes as Hillary would be. These
are the Rockefeller Republicans who could not care less about the murder
of unborn babies, or the destruction of the American family, or whether
any citizen maintains the right to keep and bear arms, or whether U.S.
sovereignty is surrendered, or whether our country is led by a modern
Napoleon, or whether America is merged into a North American Union, or
whether illegal aliens are granted citizenship, ad infinitum. The only
thing they care about is their pocketbook. They are piranhas who only
want to manipulate politics to feed their own selfish and greedy interests.
They would vote for the devil himself, if he promised them more money.

Not that liberals
are any better. They are not. But at least one knows exactly what to expect
from liberals and how to oppose them.

Real patriotism is
neither money-hungry nor socialistic. Real patriots want what is best
for America, not what is best for themselves. They understand and appreciate
America's Christian heritage and are not trying to turn the United States
into a politically correct, Balkanized, welfare state. They understand
the importance of preserving constitutional government, the Bill of Rights,
and Declaration principles. As a result, real patriots are looking for
statesmen, not charlatans.

It is unclear at
this point exactly how many true patriots are left in America. The 2008
elections will certainly help clarify the issue a great deal, because
no real patriot, no real conservative could support Rudy Giuliani.

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I have a hunch, however,
that there are more genuine patriots left in our country than many people
want to admit. For example, I have been swamped with emails from readers
assuring me that they will never vote for Giuliani NO MATTER WHAT. Here
is a sample email that I just received from San Jose, California:

"I keep reading and
watching on TV (mostly Fox News) that most Republicans will vote for Giuliani
with the hopes of defeating Hillary. Today I again read the same dribble
from NewsMax. For what it's worth here is my response to them:

"Who on the NewsMax
staff came up with this 47% of Republicans will vote for Giuliani because
they're afraid of Hillary?

"Afraid of the Hildabeast?
Please!

"All but a very few
of my associates are Republicans and none, repeat, none are going to vote
for Giuliani and that's right here in the People's Republik of Kalifornia
even.

"If the Republican
Party does not move back to the Right AS IT SHOULD BE, all of my friends
without exception are going to change to the Conservative Constitution
Party or re-register as an Independent. I've already made the change as
has my wife and daughter."

I have received scores
of emails that say the same thing.

As I have already
written, I personally believe that the elitists who control both major
parties are manipulating the election so as to ensure a Hillary victory.
And, yes, the Bush machine is clandestinely supporting Hillary as well.
They know that real conservatives will not support Giuliani, which is
why they are promoting him. He is the fall guy for Hillary Clinton. But
in case he did win, he would continue to do the bidding of the international
elites just as Dubya has done. They win either way.

If real conservatives
within the GOP want to head off a Giuliani catastrophe, they need to get
behind someone such as Ron Paul. If Giuliani obtains the presidential
nomination, one of two things will happen: he will lose the general election
and facilitate massive Republican losses in both houses of Congress, or
he will win the election and turn the GOP into a Big-Government, police-state,
warmongering leviathan that will forever corrupt the Party, turning it
into something reminiscent of Nazi Germany. America loses either way.

Grassroots Republicans
have an opportunity in the primaries to reject the liberal, Big-Government
path that the GOP leadership is forcing on the Party by rejecting the
Big-Government candidates, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney,
and John McCain. Candidates such as Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, Alan
Keyes, and Ron Paul give conservatives within the GOP alternatives to
these Big-Government neocons. (Mike Huckabee is too much in the mushy
middle for me.)

However, if the Rockefellers
succeed in nominating someone such as Giuliani, real patriots will do
what they have always done--stand for principle and vote independent.
(It is time we had a major independent challenge to the two major parties,
anyway.) If you want to start doing some homework how about the possibility
of voting for real conservatives in the 2008 elections, do what that person
in California did and check out the Constitution
Party.

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The line in the sand
is being drawn. Better start thinking now about where you will stand.
As for me and my house, we would rather stand on the Bible and the U.S.
Constitution and vote our conscience than bow the knee to madmen such
as Rudy Giuliani.

Chuck Baldwin is Founder-Pastor
of Crossroads Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. In 1985 the church
was recognized by President Ronald Reagan for its unusual growth and influence.

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It
is unclear at this point exactly how many true patriots are left in America.
The 2008 elections will certainly help clarify the issue a great deal,
because no real patriot, no real conservative could support Rudy Giuliani.